Back End Developer (TS/SCI w/ Poly)

Job Description

Our client is seeking a Back End Developer to support a federal agency in Reston, VA.

Candidate MUST possess a TS/SCI clearance with Intel Polygraph

Job Description:

We have an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated and accomplished Senior Cloud Native Backend Application Developer to join our team. As an Application Developer, you will work closely with the other Developers on the team to support business goals and to help ensure AFS products are released in a timely manner.

Responsibilities include:

Work to provide software development support to meet requirements set by the client

Work in and Agile environment

Designs, develops, troubleshoots, and analyzes open source application

Translate software requirements into workable programming code and maintain and develop programs for use in business

Reviews architecture, and selects and integrates appropriate development and support tools to insure product performance

Investigates, identifies, and resolves code issues logged internally by QA, team members, or end users

Develops and maintains documentation

Keep Jira up-to-date with progress updates

Perform knowledge transfer with team members as directed, needed

Here's what you need:

Has over 10 years of experience and a MA/MS degree or equivalent work experience (12+ years with a BA/BS)

Direct experience with AWS and AWS offerings like Lambdas, DynamoDB, S3, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, RDS, etc.

Solid understanding of CloudFormation

Knowledge and experience in DevOps tools such as Git, Jira, Jenkins & More

Knowledge and experience with CI/CD pipelines in Git

Knowledge and experience of Cloud Native development using AWS

Knowledge and experience with AWS cloud Architecture

Knowledge and experience with AWS cloud infrastructure automation, testing, and optimizing workflow methodologies

Knowledge and experience with containerization and Docker

Demonstrated hands-on development experience.

Knowledge and experience developing, debugging and/or refactoring code for popular programming languages, node/JavaScript, Python and/or other programming languages (goLang, Groovy).

Demonstrated knowledge and experience with the software development life-cycle.

Knowledge and experience with back-end web or API development

Knowledge and experience with agile methodologies and tooling

Experience developing in an Agile enterprise software development environment

Experience in a Government client environment

Bonus points if you have:

Bash scripting experience

AWS Certified Developer Associate

Knowledge and experience with audio and video collections